Historical Fiction audiobooks

Stringer and the Oil Well Indians

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Usually it takes Stringer a little while to rile folks in a new town. But no sooner does he step off the train in Tulsa than some sidewinder is doing his best to turn Stringer into yesterday's news. The hot story in Tulsa is the oil boom. It seems you can't dig a grave without hitting black gold. And Stringer's there to write the story. But... Read more

I Was There Too! The Complete Series

By: Various

Narrated by: Eleanor Bron, Elizabeth Mastrantonio & Maggie S...

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Three 'witness' insights into history. In 'That Door' by Elizabeth Kuti (read by Eleanor Bron), it is Wittenberg, 1517 and Brother Martin meets the indomitable Frau Sprenger. In 'Nothing but Blue Skies' by Dominic Power (read by Elizabeth Mastrantonio), Katherine Rudd, now 97, recalls events on the night of the Roswell incident in New Mexico,... Read more

Renegade Man

By: Parris Afton Bonds

Narrated by: Luke Smith

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

80s Romance RebootParris Afton Bonds is the New York Times Bestselling Author of more than 50 novels - most of them are historical fiction and historical romance. Join Parris as she reboots her classic romance novels as audiobooks.Many of these spicy romances were originally published in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The days of heaving bosoms,... Read more

Stringer and the Lost Tribe

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When miners dig up the Yana Indians' sacred burial ground, the tribe goes on the warpath. And after a couple of deputy sheriffs are found with so many arrows sticking out of them they look like porcupines, the miners grab their guns and axes. Even a little Indian war is big news in the fading days of the wild West, so Stringer rides out to... Read more

Secret Song

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1991, this is the final novel in the medieval Song Series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Read more

Stringer and the Border War

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Only Pancho Villa, king of bandits, is gutsy enough to make war on Terrazas the Tyrant. And only Villa would sell tickets to one of his massacres. A curious mob settles along the Rio Grande, waiting for a bloodbath. They don't know that they've wasted their two bits on a phony war. Only one man is wise to Villa's crafty fake—Stringer MacKail.... Read more

Diana the Huntress

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It seems as if there will be no need to find a husband for Diana, the fifth daughter of Charles Armitage, the hard-drinking huntsman and country vicar. For Diana shares her father's passion for the hunt, secretly posing as a man in order to participate in a sport that is considered too vulgar for a lady in Regency England. Her four elder sisters... Read more

Secret Song - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

First published in 1991, this is the final novel in the medieval Song Series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Read more

The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen

By: Syrie James

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The minute I saw the letter, I knew it was hers. There was no mistaking it: the salutation, the tiny, precise handwriting, the date, the content itself, all confirmed its ancient status and authorship…
Samantha McDonough cannot believe her eyes--or her luck. Tucked in an uncut page of a two-hundred-year old poetry book is a letter she believes... Read more

Gideon's Call

By: Peter Leavell

Narrated by: Barrie Buckner

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Leavell’s award-winning debut novel is a touching and inspiring tale of surprising heroism amid the horrors of the Civil War. Tad, a slave boy of exceptional hidden gifts, comes of age just as the Civil War erupts in coastal South Carolina. An unlikely deliverer, the young man’s hopes remain buried under a crushing weight of abuse and... Read more

Unmasking the Duke's Mistress

By: Margaret McPhee

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Writing with a velvety touch, Margaret McPhee stirs passions with tales that harken back to a more romantic age - while raising pulses in the here and now. McPhee is at her scandalous best in Unmasking the Duke's Mistress, which features Arabella, a fallen woman about to don the mask of Miss Noir at Mrs. Silver's House of Pleasures. Arabella's... Read more

Summer's Horses

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: Brian Hutchison

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton's work has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In Summers' Horses, horse trader Will Summers is known for his ability to intimidate just about anyone. When the infamous Bendigo Brothers steal Summers' horses, they can't imagine the trouble they've just gotten themselves into. Tracking the men like a... Read more

Philomel Cottage

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The recently married Alix Martin is obsessed with a recurring dream of her new husband’s murder. Each time she can see the murderer clearly, and it’s the mild-mannered man she had previously been engaged to, taking his revenge. But, what’s worse is that at the end of the dream she thanks the murderer. Perplexed, Alix tries to calm herself by... Read more

The Red Signal

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

At a séance, Sir Alington, a venerable expert of the mental condition, is pestered by Mrs. Eversleigh about the importance of the sixth sense. Soon, a young man named Dermot is drawn in and tells them both about the sixth sense he experiences, a red signal that spells danger. He is about to tell them of the last time he saw the red signal when... Read more

The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.Mystery writer Anthony Eastwood is lured to the crime scene of a faked murder, where two individuals masquerading as police officers arrest him and charge him for murder. As the phony police officers escort Mr. Eastwood home, the true goal... Read more

The Mystery of the Blue Jar

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.Every morning at the same hour on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help coming from a cottage. He speaks to the resident and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing... Read more

The Plymouth Express

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ebenezer Halliday's daughter's body is found stuffed underneath a train seat, the wealthy American industrialist hires Hercule Poirot to locate the murderer and over one hundred thousand dollars' worth of stolen jewels. Read more

The King of Clubs

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot is asked by Prince Paul of Maurania to solve the murder of Henry Reedburn, which has greatly distressed the Prince's fiancée, the famous dancer Valerie Saintclair. The only other witnesses seem to be a family of four who were playing bridge near an open window when she staggered in, crying ""Murder!"" Read more

Of Noble Birth

By: Brenda Novak

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

To escape her cruel stepfather, seamstress Alexandra Cogsworth envisioned sailing far from England…though not as a captive aboard a pirate’s ship.Pirate captain Nathaniel Kent’s strategy for exacting revenge on his coldhearted father involved taking a valuable hostage…not a seamstress he mistakenly thinks is his half sister.Yet fate has designs... Read more

The Dead Shall Not Rest

By: Tessa Harris

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The brilliant anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone returns in the second installment of Tessa Harris' vivid and compelling mystery series set in 1780s London.It is not just the living who are prey to London's criminals and cutpurses. Corpses, too, are fair game—dug up from fresh graves and sold to unscrupulous men of science. Dr. Thomas Silkstone... Read more

Vicar's Daughter to Viscount's Lady

By: Louise Allen

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of over 25 Regency romances, best-selling author Louise Allen presents the second installment of her Transformation of the Shelley Sisters series. Pregnant Arabella Shelley is shocked when the father of her unborn child dies. Fearing the child's illegitimacy, the man's brother, the inscrutable Viscount Hadleigh, demands that Bella... Read more

A Quilter's Holiday

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Elm Creek Quilters are home for the holidays in this heartwarming Christmas story from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini. For the Elm Creek Quilters, the day after Thanksgiving marks the start of the quilting season, a time to gather at Elm Creek Manor and spend the day stitching holiday gifts for loved ones. This year,... Read more

Beguiling the Beauty

By: Sherry Thomas

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A multiple RITA Award winner, Sherry Thomas delivers critically acclaimed romances to fans the world over. In Beguiling the Beauty, young widow Venetia Easterbrook harbors a deep hatred for the Duke of Lexington. Aboard an ocean liner, she seeks revenge by seducing him while disguised as another woman. But her plan backfires when she falls for... Read more

The Shadow on the Glass

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

At Mr. and Mrs. Unkerton's party in Greenway's House, Mr. Satterthwaite learns of a haunted window: no matter how many times it is replaced, it always contains the image of a gentleman in a plumed hat. When gunshots are heard, Satterthwaite finds that two of the guests have been shot dead, which is shortly followed by a sighting of the gentleman... Read more